Hapuu ii - Hawaiian Tree Fern - Cibotium menziesii #2
by Sharon Mau
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Hapuu ii - Hawaiian Tree Fern - Cibotium menziesii #2
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Sharon Mau
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Photograph - Photography
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Hāpuʻu ʻiʻi - Hawaiian Tree Fern - Cibotium menziesii
The Hāpuʻu ʻiʻi or Hawaiian Tree Fern . . Cibotium menziesii . . is a species of tree fern that is endemic to the islands of Hawaiʻi. It is also known as the Male Tree Fern, and Cibotium glaucum is deemed the Female Tree Fern due to differences in colour.
Cibotium (from the Greek kibootion, meaning chest or box) is a genus of 11 species of tropical tree fern - subject to much confusion and revision - distributed fairly narrowly in Hawaiʻi (four species, plus a hybrid, collectively known as hāpuʻu),
Cibotium glaucum, from Hawaiʻi, is the most frequently encountered Cibotium species in the horticultural trade, together with its sibling species Cibotium chamissoi and the potentially huge Cibotium menziesii. The remaining Hawaiian Cibotium, C. nealiae, is a 1-metre (3.3 ft) dwarf variety, restricted to the island of Kauaʻi that is never seen in the horticultural trade. Precise identification of Cibotium species is difficult, although all have shiny and rather waxy fronds when viewed from above, with varying degrees of powdery-pale blush when seen from underneath. The natural habitat of Cibotium is among the dripping trees and stream gulleys of the rainforests on Hawaiʻi's windward volcanic slopes.
Hāpuʻu ʻiʻi may grow up to 35 feet (11 m) tall but are usually 7 to 25 feet (2.1 to 7.6 m) in height with a diameter of nearly 3 feet (0.91 m), making it Hawaiʻi's largest tree fern. Cibotium menziesii is endemic to the windward portions of the main Hawaiian islands. It is found in rainforests at elevations of 305 to 1,830 metres (1,001 to 6,004 ft).
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September 19th, 2014
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